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🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Rebecca and John are joined by their VF colleague Hillary Busis to discuss the overtly political movies of the season, including One Battle After Another, A House of Dynamite, and Bugonia. Plus, they look back at how the political climate has previously affected the awards race. Finally, they discuss how stars and directors navigate the tricky task of promoting their movies when politics are front and center.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, |
| 0:05.6 | Fianney Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:09.8 | And I'm John Ross. |
| 0:13.2 | John, you have a good Halloween? |
| 0:15.2 | I did have a good Halloween. |
| 0:16.9 | I noticed a lot of K-pop demon hunters. |
| 0:20.2 | So many. I noticed a lot of Gladyspop demon hunters. So many. |
| 0:21.3 | I noticed a lot of Gladys from weapons. |
| 0:24.5 | And I'm very interested in the wig production for that costume. |
| 0:30.5 | Like, I have this, like, fantasy in my head of, like, Amazon in the background being, like, |
| 0:36.3 | we got to ramp up production. Because that's a wig you can't necessarily find. |
| 0:42.7 | And then, you know, I did see some Leo's in the bathrobe. |
| 0:46.4 | I thought that was fun. |
| 0:47.5 | I remember last year seeing the substance costumes popping up. |
| 0:53.1 | And I was like, okay, like this movie's creeping in |
| 0:58.1 | now into like national zeitgeisty area. I think because we live in L.A., costumes are actually |
| 1:07.0 | sort of a good litmus test for Oscars because we are around people who vote or in the |
| 1:11.4 | industry. I mean, I think Frozen was probably the last time we saw a sensation like we're seeing |
| 1:16.1 | with K-pop Demon Hunters. I'm like, just give them the animated award now because no parent has |
| 1:21.8 | not heard the music or seen the movie by this point. And it's just wild how crazy it was this Halloween, think so yes yeah on social media I saw a ton of sinners costumes too yes a lot of couples you're right for sinners which I loved and I think it's sort of similar where I that's another movie that I think will sort of stand the test of time culturally so So a lot of good stuff out there. |
| 1:48.8 | John, I don't know if you've noticed this, |
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